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- Influence
Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
- Nina Czernich, O. Falck, T. Kretschmer, L. Woessmann
- Economics
- 1 December 2009
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its… Expand
E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
- O. Falck, R. Gold, Stephan Heblich
- Political Science
- 31 May 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities… Expand
The Effect of Industry, Region, and Time on New Business Survival – A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- M. Fritsch, Udo Brixy, O. Falck
- Economics
- 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region, and time on new business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983–2000 period. The… Expand
New Business Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multidimensional Analysis
- M. Fritsch, O. Falck
- Economics
- 15 March 2007
Fritsch M. and Falck O. (2007) New business formation by industry over space and time: a multidimensional analysis, Regional Studies 41, 1–16. A multidimensional approach is applied to analyse… Expand
Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
- Stefan Bauernschuster, O. Falck, L. Woessmann
- Economics
- 31 May 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we… Expand
Corporate social responsibility: Doing well by doing good
- O. Falck, Stephan Heblich
- Business, Economics
- 1 May 2007
Abstract Saving the rain forest from yet another palm oil plantation would certainly garner a company favorable attention from environmentalists, but how would its shareholders react? In this… Expand
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
- O. Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Jens Suedekum
- Geography, Sociology
- 1 February 2010
It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect of cultural ties on economic exchange is difficult to identify, chiefly because cultural ties are… Expand
Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
- Stefan Bauernschuster, O. Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Suedekum
- Geography
- 26 September 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)… Expand
Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions?
- O. Falck, Stephan Heblich, Elke Luedemann
- Psychology
- 2012
We incorporate the concept of social identity into entrepreneurship and analyze the determinants of having entrepreneurial intentions. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an… Expand
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
- D. Audretsch, O. Falck, M. Feldman, Stephan Heblich
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 March 2012
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry… Expand